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To add to Keno's sibling comment, Julia, as a JIT compiler, essentially creates large chunks of standalone, "static" code, and runs those as much as it can, breaking out into the "dynamic" runtime when it has reached the limits of type inference or for some other reason needs to return to the runtime to perform dynamic dispatch etc... in these instances, we break out of the standalone code and start using the runtime to do things like determine where to jump next (or whether to compile another chunk of static code and jump to that). Note that these chunks of static code can be both smaller or larger than a function, it all depends on what Julia can compile in one go without needing to break out into the dynamic environment.